Ticket-holder.



H. HIRSCH. TICKET HOLDER. APPLIGATION FILED MGA, 1909.

Patented June 7, 1910.

UNrrEn sTArEs PATENT omnes.

HENRY HIRSCH, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y

., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 LOUIS GLARIE.

TICKET-HOLDER.

To all whom it may conca/m; i A

Be it knownthat I, HENRY HIRsoi-I, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to ticket-holders intended to contain a number of tickets such as are used by the usual sub-urban and interurban railroads and which are usually sold in numbers one attached to the other, the object of the invention being to provide means to hold the tickets properly in position so as to enable them to be carried from place to place and torn olf as required.

For this purpose the invention consists of an improved ticket-holder comprising a box or container and hinged covers capable of being alternately raised and to be retained in their position by a spring. And the invention consists further of certain details which will be fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side-view of my improved device, Fig. 2 is a top-view, Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 but showing the tickets being pulled out of the ticket -holder, and Fig. l shows a modified form of ticketholder which is intended to be used in those places where different tickets are used, and in which case one kind of ticket is put in one side of the box and the other kind of ticket in the other side of the box.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

Referring to the drawing, a box-shaped member 6 is provided with an open side, at each end of which is arranged a cover S provided with a hinge 7. The covers do not extend the full length of the box, but only a part of the length, as shown in Fig. 2, and are rounded olf at the free end edges 9. The hinged end of each cover is provided with a slight projection 10, the object of which is to raise the end of the ticket A somewhat above the surface of the cover, that the user may be able to readily grasp the ticket. The covers are held in position against the box by springs 14. The two covers 8 which are hinged to the box as described act readily to permit the withdrawal of one ticket at a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 4, 1909.

Patented June 7, 1910. Serial No. 511,221.

time from the box somewhat in the manner shown in Fig. 3. If a ticket is pulled out, both covers are raised in the position shown in Fig. 3 and a slight further drawing of the ticket will cause the uppermost end 11 of one cover S to slip by the end 12 of the other cover 8 and fall down on the sides 21 of the box. The sides of the cover which thus falls down will engage the recesses 13 at the sides 2l of the box and hold the remaining tickets in position. The ticket which is thus drawn out of the box is then gripped by the user, and the end of the next ticket is pressed tightly against the cover of the box, so that the separating line a of the two tickets is in line with the hinge of the box. This enables the ready lseparation of the ticket drawn out of the box from the one which is held against the box. The projecting part 10 of the cover S serves to raise somewhat above the surface of the cover the y ticket from which one has just been detached, whereby it is enabled to be readily grasped by the user when it is desired to tear it oft'. The box is provided with openings 16 at its sides in order to see how many tickets are still in the box and for convenience one of these openings is provided at each side of the box.

In those cases where different tickets are used for different lines of cars as for instance in New York city, where tickets of a red color are used by the elevated railroad and tickets of a blue color by the subway, it is advisable to provide both sides of the box with tickets. For this purpose I have shown a modified form of my device in Fig. 4, which consists in having two covers at one side of the box and two similar covers at the other side of the box. The top and bottom of the covers act exact-ly in the same way and are identical in construction. lhen this form of device is used it is not necessary to have the openings 16 extend as far down as the openings shown in Fig. l, but only as far down as shown in Fig. 4.

The advantages of my device are that the tickets may be kept in a safe and convenientV place and may be readily detached as described.

My improved ticket-holder may be made of any suitable material, as hard rubber, wood, brass, etc., and when made up forms a convenient and salable article of manufacture.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A ticket-holder comprising a box open at one side and having overlapping covers hinged at opposite ends of said side, and having recesses at the upper edge of each side of the box for the reception of said covers.

2. A tickethoider comprising a box7 and spring-pressed covers hinged at opposite ends of one side of the box and over-lapping each other intermediateiy of said ends, the outer face of each cover being provided with a projection beyond and near the free end of the other cover when the covers are in overlapping position.

3. A ticket-holder comprising a box open at one side and having over-lapping covers hinged at opposite ends of said side, and having recesses at the upper edge of each side of the box for the reception of said covers and additional recesses in said sides for exposing to view the tickets in the box.

4. A'ticket-hoider comprising a box open at one side, having covers, one end of each of Which is hinged to the box, While the free ends overlap, and projections on said covers near their hinged ends.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY HIB-SCH.

IVitnesses:

LOUIS GELARIE, C. P. GoEPEL. 

